Website Design Plan

Aims

• Advertise the event, inform and educate people about the event.
• Showcase our Sponsors & Partners, allow them to reach out to us.
• Showcase our Timetable, Speakers and event details.
• Showcase our Team running the event.

Layout

Landing Page

• Main page / landing page
  • Something with a nice background and tagline.
  • Logo or icons
  • Two buttons in the style of "I'm a..." (Student, Sponsor) that take to specific subpage.
• Footer

Students

Have a tailored website for students, with all the information they need to know about the event.

• Get Tickets page
  • A button to get tickets.
  • Some nice background and icons.
• About Us (HERO)
  • A short description of the event, our society and what to expect.
• Timeline
  • We can use some form of 1-day calendar we can find open source and tailor it to our needs.
• Our Team
  • A grid of our team members, with their pictures and names.
• Sponsors
  • An automatic carrousel of our sponsors in the form of logos that link to their websites.
  • There are different types of sponsorships, which some have more priority (should be first) and have some form of differentiation like a golden spark background or something.
• FAQ
  • A list of frequently asked questions specific for students, and their answers.
• Contact Us
  • A form and contact information if students have any questions for us.
• Footer

Sponsors

Have a tailored website for sponsors, with all the information they need to know about sponsoring the event, what benefits they get and such.

• About Us
  • A short description of the event.
• Venue
  • Current venue (possibly include a picture of the venue and map).
• Timeline
  • Unlike the normal student one, they can hover over potential blank spots, to get information on any workshops they may want to run and such.
    • We can use some form of 1-day calendar we can find open source and tailor it to our needs to speed up development.
• Benefits
  • Benefits for the company, what they can get out of it.
  • Benefits for students, and what they get out of it and how their sponsoring helps.
• Sponsors
  • An automatic carrousel of our sponsors in the form of logos that link to their websites.
  • There are different types of sponsorships, which some have more priority (should be first) and have some form of differentiation like a golden spark background or something.
  • If we already have sponsors, we can form it in a way to companies like "Join our sponsors..." or something. If we don't have any sponsors we can just omit this section for the time being.
• Sponsor Tiers
  • A list of the different tiers of sponsorship, and what they get out of it.
  • Use icons to differentiate between the tiers.
  • Incentivise the middle and high tiers.
• Sponsor Us / Contacts
  • Our contact information
  • A form for sponsors to fill out, with their details and what they want to sponsor.
• Footer

Potential inspiration

Royal Hackaway
Hack the Burgh
Hack the North
Hack the 6ix
DevPost (More for making posts about Hackathons, but still has some interesting things)